CLEVELAND — Joel Hanrahan played catch from 75 feet on Tuesday and from 90 feet on Wednesday and reported no ill effects from the hamstring injury that landed him on the disabled list.

CLEVELAND — Joel Hanrahan played catch from 75 feet on Tuesday and from 90 feet on Wednesday and reported no ill effects from the hamstring injury that landed him on the disabled list. He’ll still need to throw off a mound and than make at least two rehab appearances before he’s ready to be activated from the disabled list.

Will Hanrahan resume his duties as the Red Sox closer at that point?

John Farrell wouldn’t make a commitment one way or the other on Wednesday.

“I don’t think we’re sitting here today ready to make that claim,” Farrell said. “We’ve got to get through some things first — particularly how he responds with the hamstring. He’s going to need a couple of rehab appearances just to get himself going again. This is a bigger-bodied guy that is a power pitcher, and we want to be sure that he feels comfortable physically before we bring him back to us, and we’ll work through that at that time.”

While Hanrahan is out, Andrew Bailey will handle ninth-inning duties for the Red Sox. Bailey has struck out nine hitters in 51/3 innings so far this season, but the only run he allowed came in a save situation against Tampa Bay on Monday — a save he blew.

Delaying the inevitable?

Farrell has not told Jackie Bradley Jr. he’s going to be sent down to Triple-A Pawtucket once David Ortiz is activated from the disabled list.

“We haven’t said, ‘When A happens, B is going to happen,’ ” Farrell said. “That’s like inviting him to a place and then asking, ‘When are you going to leave?’ ”

But with Bradley having sat out back-to-back games in Cleveland — he made a ninth-inning appearance in left field on Tuesday, but that was it — it appears that the days are numbered for Bradley in the major leagues.

Farrell and Ben Cherington made clear that Bradley would stay in the major leagues only as long as he was playing regularly. But Bradley now has been benched both against lefthanded pitchers and twice in a row against righties.

If Bradley ever was going to play, it would have been against Justin Masterson, a righty whose arm angle makes it easier for lefties to see the ball against him. But Bradley is hitless in his last 20 at-bats, and so Mike Carp and Daniel Nava were in the lineup instead.

Farrell said he hasn’t left Bradley wondering about his role. The two have talked more than once.

“We’ve had a recent sit-down, and not the first one and certainly not the last one,” he said. “These sit-down conversations become important just to get a sense of where he’s at mentally, what he’s feeling at the plate. You have the give and take of what you see versus what he feels. Most importantly, (for him) to know that we’re here with him, we’re here working with him and supporting him.”

Morales coming along

Franklin Morales struck out one and issued two walks in three scoreless innings in a rehab start for Single-A Greenville on Wednesday night. He threw 48 pitches.

Morales is expected to make another start in five days, presumably a four-inning start. Where he’ll make that start has not been announced.

Lefty Craig Breslow pitched an inning in extended spring training on Wednesday and will do so again on Friday. He’ll join the Red Sox in Boston on Sunday to throw in the bullpen under the supervision of the coaching staff. Provided all has gone well to that point, he’ll make his first rehab start at Double-A Portland next Tuesday.

When will they learn?

Two Red Sox minor-league pitchers have been suspended for 50 games for violating the minor-league drug program.

High-A Salem pitcher Miguel Pena was suspended for 50 games for a second positive test for a drug of abuse. The 22-year-old lefty was a sixth-round draft pick of the Red Sox in 2011 and posted a 2.95 ERA in 1002/3 innings pitched at Single-A Greenville last season. He had a 3.46 ERA in his first three starts for Salem this season.

Seventeen-year-old righty Gerson Bautista was suspended for testing positive for metabolites of Stanozolol. His suspension will be effective at the start of the Dominican Summer League season.